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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Huff, James Ellen, Sr., S.C.N.".
Sr. James Ellen Huff was the College Librarian for Catherine Spalding College in Louisville (now known as Spalding University) at the time of writing.
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All materials labeled "Spalding University Archives" are photocopies from this collection and cannot be reproduced without permission from its staff.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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| 1. |
1963/12/05 |
TLS[x] to Merton |
My far too belated thank you for autographing with your best wishes and prayers for me and Catherine |
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thanks for autographed copy of The New Man / sending the statement "Concerning the Collection in Bellarmine College Library" - manuscripts sent to University of Kentucky - asks whether donations to those collections preclude any additional gifts or an "accent piece" for the newly planned Catherine Spalding Library
«detailed view» |
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1963/12/no? |
TN[x] from Walsh, Daniel / to Joe |
Would you be good enough to give this autographed copy of the New Man to Sister James Ellen |
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[a note from Dan Walsh to "Joe" - no last name] signed copy of The New Man - gift from Merton and Daniel Walsh
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1964/01/01 (#01) |
TAL[c] from Merton |
As you know, a Trappist monk has rather a hard job keeping up with correspondence, so I do not |
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offers Spalding mimeographs Merton circulates to the novitiate / asks if by "accent piece" she means something in his poor handwriting - offers autographed copy of some of his poems in a Mexican edition with abstract illustrations by Armando Morales, which are "no less abstract and no more than my handwriting"
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1964/01/01 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
As you know, a Trappist monk has rather a hard job keeping up with correspondence, so I do not |
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offers Spalding mimeographs Merton circulates to the novitiate / asks if by "accent piece" she means something in his poor handwriting - offers autographed copy of some of his poems in a Mexican edition with abstract illustrations by Armando Morales, which are "no less abstract and no more than my handwriting"
«detailed view» |
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1964/01/14 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you very much indeed for the ample evidence of your "fraternal good will toward the Sisters of |
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thanks for Merton's autographed Poemas / asking for a copy of Merton's Introduction to the English Mystics - interest in starting a collection of English Mysticism at Spalding
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1967/10/24 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your hearty response to our D-day invitation and the proof-positive of your desire |
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thanks for Merton's gift of "galley sheets, the picture of you and Jacques [Maritain?], and the 'accent piece', Roots, an exquisite bit of photography" / sends "Vatican II Pamphlet by a St. Joseph Infirmary student nurse" / sends Merton pamphlet of new library
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1967/10/no? |
TNS[x] from Merton |
Though I can't be physically present to celebrate enthusiastically (as is my desire) I can at least |
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sends regrets that he cannot attend the new library dedication and open house at Catherine Spalding College / sending "mimeographs, off-prints, tearsheets and even 'accent pieces'" to "create confusion in the library"
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